A Treatise of Human Nature

BOOK I PART IV But even suppose this curiosity and ambi- tion should not transport me into speculations without the sphere of co ...

BOOK I PART IV this respect I make bold to recommend philos- ophy, and shall not scruple to give it the pref- erence to supersti ...

BOOK I PART IV ophy only ridiculous. I am sensible, that these two cases of the strength and weakness of the mind will not compr ...

BOOK I PART IV gredient, which they commonly stand much in need of, and which would serve to temper those fiery particles, of wh ...

BOOK I PART IV wherein these questions have been the subjects of enquiry and reasoning. Two thousand years with such long interr ...

BOOK I PART IV from that spleen, and invigorate it from that in- dolence, which sometimes prevail upon me. If the reader finds h ...

BOOK I PART IV philosophical researches, notwithstanding our sceptical principles, but also that we should yield to that propens ...

BOOK I PART IV were extorted from me by the present view of the object, and imply no dogmatical spirit, nor conceited idea of my ...

BOOK II OF THEPASSIONS ...

PART I OFPRIDE ANDHUMILITY SECTIONI. DIVISION OF THESUBJECT As all the perceptions of the mind may be divided into impressions a ...

BOOK II PART I ternal organs. Secondary, or reflective impres- sions are such as proceed from some of these original ones, eithe ...

BOOK II PART I have called secondary and reflective, as arising either from the original impressions, or from their ideas. Bodil ...

BOOK II PART I passions, may decay into so soft an emotion, as to become, in a manner, imperceptible. But as in general the pass ...

BOOK II PART I from the same principles, but by the conjunc- tion of other qualities. This distinction I can- not at present jus ...

BOOK II PART I SECTIONII. O PRIDE ANDHUMILITY,THEIR OBJECTS ANDCAUSES The passions ofprideandhumilitybeing sim- ple and uniform ...

BOOK II PART I directly contrary, have yet the sameobject. This object is self, or that succession of related ideas and impressi ...

BOOK II PART I ceptions, which we callself, be always the ob- ject of these two passions, it is impossible it can be theircause, ...

BOOK II PART I because supposing it to be the view only of our- self, which excited them, that being perfectly indifferent to ei ...

BOOK II PART I of the passions, and produces not both in the very same degree. The first idea, that is pre- sented to the mind, ...

BOOK II PART I tice, integrity; all these are the cause of pride; and their opposites of humility. Nor are these passions confin ...